In addition to these mandatory restrictions, additional fees will be charged for water usage above 12,000 gallons during this Phase II Drought Warning. For a typical customer, the excess water usage fee will increase from $3.68 to $4.60 for every 1,000 gallons used above the 12,000 gallon threshold.

Assistant Director of the Water Resource Management Department, Matt Dunn said, ‘We are not in a dire situation. We do have water available for our customers, and we are OK in the situation we are in. Particularly if we get the winter rains that we typically get that fill our reservoir back up going into the spring and summer months of next year. It is important that our customers heed the drought warning, and comply with what we’re asking them to do.”